its-ok

its-ok-to-die

About

its-ok-to-die is a project by Aarón Montoya-Moraga.

its-ok-to-die is a project that consists of a countdown timer to your own expected death date, based on the database by The World Bank https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN.

Aarón was born in 1989 in Chile and their corresponding life expectancy is 72.23 years, according to this database.

This project is part of the author’s thesis for graduating from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York university, under the guidance of professor Andrew Lazarow and research residents Tigran Paravyan and Justin Peake.

Versions

• v0 (2017): original physical version, countdown to the author’s expected death date, done in Processing.
• v1 (2018): interactive web version, built using p5.js.

Exhibitions

This project has been exhibited on the following instances:

• 2017-05, NYU ITP Spring Show 2017, New York NY, USA.

Technology

These are the technology tools used for each version.

2017 - v0

Hardware:

• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
• Raspberry Pi touch display

Software:

• Raspbian operating system
• Processing 3 software.

2018 - v1

Software:

• HTML
• CSS
• p5.js JavaScript library.

Code

The code for both versions can be found on this repository.

Documentation

2017 - v0

2018 - v1

Web version: https://montoyamoraga.github.io/its-ok/its-ok-to-die/web/

References

• The World Bank - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

Thanks

• Andrew Lazarow for being an amazingly encouraging and enlightening thesis advisor for my thesis at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
• Justin Peake for sharing with me great references for my thesis and pushing me forward.
• Rebecca (Marks) Leopold for making me realize this project is a self-portrait
• Tigran Paravyan for pushing me forward on my thesis.